Plasma Physics

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This foundational survey of plasma physics served as a standard text throughout the 1960s and 70s, and remains a valuable source of historic content. An edited collection of papers by some of the pioneering experts in the field, the collection includes Klimontovich's article on quantum plasmas, Buneman's writings on attenuating and amplifying waves, and Yoler's review of magnetohydrodynamics.

James E. Drummond established and headed Boeing Aerospace's Plasma Physics Laboratory. His tenure there, from 1958 to 1973, was the longest of his professional life and in many ways the pinnacle of his career.